Susan E. RayEDU 5103
Educational Governance and Policy
Professor Kevin McGuire, Ph.D. Summer 2005
"The bricoleur reflects on understanding the leader's role in gaining a firm grasp of the socio-historical contexts, cultural patterns, and varied processes to leading the school successfully."
Course Description: An analysis of the school community context in considering board policies and the development of working relationships with community members setting considering standards, accountability, pressure groups, and political ideologies; the interaction of the school system and its political environment in the development of policy.
Required Texts:
In an effort to help local school boards best fulfill their role, the National School Boards Association has created the Key Work of School Boards, a framework for raising student achievement through community engagement. The National School Board Association publication, The Key Work of School Boards, published in 2000, strives to help school boards focus their efforts on understanding and achieving the key elements of their work. The guidebook seeks to focus board members' efforts on improving student achievement, not on administering the day-to-day operations of a school district. The Key Work of School Boards identifies eight critical factors that affect how school boards work.
Group Presentation: Policy Proposal
Beyond this course I poured through the Pinellas County Policy Manual available at: http://www.pcsb.org/planning/html/chapters/toc.htm
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